Marvelyn brown biography
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Marvelyn brown biography
Marvelyn Brown
American writer and activist
Marvelyn Brown (born May 7, 1984) is an African-American author and AIDS activist. She is the founder of Marvelous Connections, an HIV/AIDS organization founded in 2006.
She wrote the autobiography The Naked Truth: Young, Beautiful and (HIV) Positive,[1] which tells her story as a young heterosexual woman living with HIV. She has delivered public speeches and made public appearances in the United States, Bermuda, Canada, Jamaica, Mexico, the Virgin Islands, South Africa, Tanzania, and Rwanda.[2]
Early life
Brown was born on May 7, 1984, in Nashville, Tennessee.
She describes in her autobiography that she had regular clashes with her mother, but the two have since reconciled.[3] She has two half-siblings with whom she keeps in contact, but has not actually met them in person due to them living across the country from her.[3]
HIV diagnosis
Having little knowledge on HIV, Brown was unawa